Alice Aycock’s New Sculpture “Maelstrom” Unveiled in New York

New York: Maelstrom is part of Park Avenue Paper Chase, a public art project which consist of a series of sculptures to be installed on Park Avenue between 52nd and 57th streets in spring of 2014. The sculpture Maelstrom will be on view at LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY, until 12 October 2013.

Alice Aycock said, “For the Park Avenue project I tried to visualize the movement of wind energy as it flowed up and down the Avenue creating random whirlpools, touching down here and there and sometimes forming dynamic three-dimensional massing of forms. The sculptural assemblages suggest waves, wind turbulence, turbines, and vortexes of energy. One of the works, in particular, references the expressive quality of wind through drapery and the chaotic beauty of fluid/flow dynamics. As much as the sculptures are obviously placed on the mall, I wanted the work to have a random, haphazard quality—in some cases, piling up on itself, in others spinning off into the air. Much of the energy of the city is invisible. It is the energy of thought and ideas colliding and being transmitted outward. The works are the metaphorical visual residue of the energy of New York City.”